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"The rule of law means that laws are made according to established procedures rather than a leader’s dictates, and that they are reasonable. Laws are enforced equally. No one is above the law, and everyone has an obligation to obey the law."
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"'[W]here, say some, is the King of America?' Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet that convinced British colonists in North America to cut ties with their king and start a new nation. '[I]n America the law is king. ->
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For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.'"

Two of the more important paragraphs (in my opinion) from yesterday's "Letter from an American" by Dr. Heather Cox Richardson.
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